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FARID AZFAR is Assistant Professor of History at Swarthmore College. His essays have been published in The Journal of British Studies, The London Journal: A Review of Metropolitan Society Past and Present, and Historical Reflections/Reflexions Historiques. He is currently at work on a book entitled “Contrary Winds: The Disappearance of the Royal George and the Furthest Depths of the South Sea Company.”

RALPH BAUER is an associate professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Maryland, College Park. His publications include The Cultural Geography of Colonial American Literatures: Empire, Travel, Modernity (2003, 2008). He is currently at work on a monograph entitled “The Alchemy of Conquest: Prophecy, Discovery, and the Secrets of the New World.”

BARBARA M. BENEDICT holds the Charles A. Dana Chair of English at Trinity College, CT. She has published Framing Feeling: Sentiment and Style in English Prose Fiction, 1745–1800 (1994); Making the Modern Reader: Cultural Mediation in Early-Modern Literary Anthologies (1996); and Curiosity: A Cultural History of Early Modern Inquiry (2002).

MELANIE HOLM is an Assistant Professor of English at Indiana University of Pennsylvania. Her work has appeared in numerous venues, including most recently, Philological Quarterly. She is currently preparing a manuscript on the relationship between skepticism and feminist thought in eighteenth century literature titled “The Skeptical Imagination: Gender, Genre, and Sociability in Eighteenth-Century Literature.”

CHRISTA KNELLWOLF KING teaches at the University of Vienna and is affiliated as Honorary Professor to the University of Queensland. She has published two monographs: Representations of the Feminine in the Poetry of Alexander Pope (1998) and Faustus and the Promises of the New Science (2008), as well as several collections of essays, including The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism, vol. 9 (2001), The Enlightenment World (2004), Frankenstein’s Science (2009), and Stories of Empire (2009). Currently she is completing a book that studies voyaging accounts as instruments of empire building and she is leading a research group on cognitive critical and cultural theory. [End Page 461]

KATHERINE MANNHEIMER is Associate Professor of English at the University of Rochester and the author of Print, Visuality, and Gender in Eighteenth-Century Satire: “The Scope in Ev’ry Page” (2011). She has also published numerous articles on Pope, Gay, and others. Her current project examines acts of reading on the Restoration stage.

SARAH NICOLAZZO is Assistant Professor of Literature at the University of California, San Diego. Her work has appeared in Modern Philology, and her current book project examines vagrancy as a legal and literary category at the intersection of capitalism, empire, and police power across the eighteenth-century Atlantic world.

SLANEY CHADWICK ROSS is a doctoral candidate at Purdue University. Her dissertation explores the changing nature of secret histories and spy narratives throughout the eighteenth century.

SETH RUDY is Assistant Professor of English Literature at Rhodes College and has published and presented work on Alexander Pope and Jonathan Swift, eighteenth-century data visualization, and the modern history of the encyclopedia. His book, Literature and Encyclopedism in Enlightenment Britain: The Pursuit of Complete Knowledge (2014) was recently published by Palgrave Macmillan.

JEREMY WEAR is a Ph. D. Candidate and Graduate College Fellow at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. [End Page 462]

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